North American auto unions in crisis : lean production as contested terrain /

North American auto unions in crisis : lean production as contested terrain / edited by William C. Green, Ernest J. Yanarella.

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In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators contribute to the debate of the crisis of the Fordist regime of mass production and its implications for organized labor. They present the first comparative cross-national study of the labor relations in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Green, William C., 1941-, Yanarella, Ernest J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ℗♭1996.
Series:SUNY series in the sociology of work.
Subjects:
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.
CAW-Canada.
Syndicat international des travailleurs unis de l'automobile, de l'aeronautique, de l'astronautique et des instruments aratoires d'Amerique.
TCA-Canada.
Automobile industry workers > Labor unions > United States.
Automobile industry workers > Labor unions > Canada.
Automobile industry and trade > United States > Management.
Automobile industry and trade > Canada > Management.
Automobile industry and trade > Management.
Automobile industry workers > Labor unions.
Canada.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Building other people's cars: organized labor and the crisis of Fordism / Ernest J. Yanarella and William C. Green
  • Part I: The crisis of Fordism
  • Theoretical, legal, and strategic challenges for organized labor
  • Lean production, labor control, and post-Fordism in the Japanese automobile industry / Carl H.A. Dassbach
  • The UAW and CAW under the shadow of post-Fordism: a tale of two unions / Ernest J. Yanarella
  • Part II: The crisis of Fordism on the shop floor: four case studies
  • The myth of egalitarianism: worker response to post-Fordism at Subaru-Isuzu / Laurie Graham
  • UAW, lean production, and labor-management relations at AutoAlliance / Steve Babson
  • CAW, worker commitment, and labor-management relations under lean production at CAMI / James Rinehart, David Robertson, Christopher Huxley, and the CAW research team at CAMI
  • Worker training at Toyota and Saturn: hegemony begins in the training center classroom / Ernest J. Yanarella
  • Part III: Beyond the crisis of Fordism: the role of organized labor
  • The transformation of the NLRA paradigm: the future of labor-management relations in post-Fordist auto plants / William C. Green
  • New dimensions for labor in a post-Fordist world / Donald M. Wells.

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